The mechanical engineering company Trumpf looks to the future with caution, despite its well-filled order books.
"It is still too early to be overly optimistic," said the chairman of the management board, Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, on Tuesday in Ditzingen (Ludwigsburg district).
For the current financial year she is expecting a double-digit percentage increase in sales.
Ditzingen - Due to problems such as material shortages and the corona pandemic, an exact forecast is not possible.
The company's financial year always begins in July and ends at the end of June.
Despite the corona pandemic, Trumpf set a record for incoming orders in the past financial year.
In the 2020/21 financial year, the family company received orders worth 3.9 billion euros.
That is an increase of 19.7 percent and the highest order intake in the company's history, said Leibinger-Kammüller.
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